This interactive workshop, co-located with the DI4R conference,  will look into the design and development of e-infrastructures for emerging scientific communities and their use cases.

The event will bring together scientific communities, projects, Research Infrastructures with the providers of European e-infrastructure services (EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT and OpenAIRE).

The workshop participants will analyse the use cases that the participating scientific communities bring to the event, then – in a collaborative way – will design and define suitable e-infrastructure setups and roadmaps to implement them using and customising solutions from the participating e-infrastructures.

This will be the second edition of this event, following the workshop organised as part of the EGI Conference 2016 in Amsterdam.

What will we get out of the workshop?

• Design and implementation plans for community-specific e-infrastructure use cases
• Answers to participants’ questions concerning e-infrastructures
• Better understanding of the participating scientific use cases
• Social network formed between use cases and e-infrastructure service providers
• Gaps in e-infrastructure offerings, and service candidates to fill these gaps
• Connections among e-infrastructure communities

About the participating e-infrastructures

• EGI is one of the largest e-infrastructure of the world (more than 350 federated providers), offering compute, data and storage services to researchers, Research Infrastructures and international research collaborations.
• EUDAT is a collaborative Pan-European infrastructure that provides research data services, training and consultancy for researchers, research communities & infrastructures, data centres.
• GÉANT delivers and promotes advanced networks and related e-infrastructure services.
• OpenAIRE is a network of Open Access repositories, archives and journals that support Open Access policies.

The workshop is open for

• Scientific project, research infrastructures and research communities and groups who would like to setup, access or operate an e-infrastructure. Please email designworkshop@mailman.egi.eu if you would like to contribute with a use case to the event. We will pre-analyse and make the use case ready for the workshop.
• Technology and service providers from e-infrasturcutre communities. Please emaildesignworkshop@mailman.egi.eu if you would like to represent service or technology at the workshop. We will select relevant technologies for the event based on the pre-analysis of the scientific use cases.

Organiser panel

• EGI: Gergely Sipos (Coordinator)
• EUDAT: Giuseppe Fiameni
• GEANT: Licia Florio, Vincenzo Capone
• OpenAIRE: Paolo Manghi, Pedro Príncipe

The panel can be reached via the designworkshop@mailman.egi.eu email list.

Venue, travel, accommodation

• For practical information (incl. recommended hotels), please consult the Digital Infrastructures for Research website

Fees and Registration

• This workshop is free of charge, but requires registration.
• To register: please follow the link below. Number of places is limited and the organisers reserve the right to select participants amongst the list of registerees.  Priority will be given to representatives of the selected use cases, to representatives of the organiser e-infrastructures, and to providers of services that seem relevant for the selected use cases.
• A limited amount of travel fund is available for selected use case providers. Please emaildesignworkshop@mailman.egi.eu to apply.
• This workshop is a co-location of the Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R) Conference. Attending the DI4R Conference requires separate registration.

Previous event

A similar workshop was organised by EGI in April 2016 in Amsterdam. Agenda page with 5 use cases and all the presented materials is available at https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2895/.